ECH 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Genocide Convention, Noble Eightfold Path, International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Conflict Studies and Human Rights
• Course: ECH 2310
• Professor: Michael Williams

Document Summary

What is at stake is delivering practical protection for ordinary people at the risk of their lives because their states are unwilling or unable to protect them. Continuing fears about the right to intervene being acknowledged. Any new approach to intervention on human protection grounds need to meet at least four basic objectives. Sovereignty signifies the legal identity of a state in international law. All sovereign states are equal regardless of comparative size or wealth. Generally the authority of the state is not regarded as absolute. Condition of every state that is sovereign to respect every other states sovereignty (this is enshrined in international law) Law like right to self defence have been extended to include the right to launch raids in neighbouring countries that could not stop their territory from being used for terrorist attacks. Un is the one that seals the deal of sovereignty.